Water for Data Centers
Data centers are becoming a major driver of industrial water demand. As cloud services, AI, and IoT scale globally, water requirements for cooling are increasing in both volume and intensity.
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Key Research Questions
How are scaling data centers impacting water demand?
What is the status of government subsidies such as the U.S. CHIPS Act?
What are the water risks facing data center operators and the utilities that serve them?
How do data center expansion trends differ between the U.S. and Europe?
Water for Data
5.6%
annual growth rate in global data center water use through 2030
1 million+
gallons of water used daily for cooling by some U.S. data centers
870%
projected increase in data center cooling water demand
57%
projected share of water withdrawals by hyperscale data centers by 2030
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